• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.233-240
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• 2017

Fingerprint authentication identifies individuals based on user specific information. It is widely used as it is convenient, secure and has no risk of leakage, loss, or forgotten. However, the latent fingerprints remaining on the smart device's surface are vulnerable to smudge attacks. We analyze the usage patterns of individuals using smart device and propose methods to reconstruct damaged fingerprint images using fingerprint smudges. We examine the feasibility of smudge attacks with frequent usage situations by reconstructing fingerprint smudges collected from touch screens. Finally, we empirically verify the vulnerability of fingerprint authentication systems by showing high attack rates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.90-93
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 자율신경망 중 ART2(Adaptive Resonance Theory 2)를 이용하여 지문의 매칭알고리즘에 적용하였다. 지문의 영상을 센서로부터 입력 받아, 전 처리와 후처리 과정을 거친 후 각각의 지문에 대한 특징값을 구하고, 지문 영상을 분류 및 매칭 할 수 있도록 하였다. 다음으로 제시한 알고리즘을 바탕으로 PC(Personal Computer) 없이 독립적으로 사용 할 수 있는 실시간 임베디드 지문 인식 시스템을 구현 하였다. 실시간 임베디드 지문 인식 시스템 설계에 있어 크기와 기능면을 고려해 메인 모듈의 프로세서로 최근 신호 처리에 많이 사용되고 있는 DSP(Digital Signal Processor)를 사용 하였으며, 지문을 입력 받기 위한 센서로는 반도체 지문 센서를 사용하였다. 메인 모듈과 센서를 가지고 간단한 디스플레이 및 통신 테스트를 위해 PIC Micro-Processor를 사용해 컨트롤 보드를 제작하여 간단한 인식 테스트를 하였다. 제작한 보드를 가지고 다양한 어플리케이션이 가능하나, 본 논문에서는 하드웨어나 소프트웨어 개발에 사용 가능한 RDK(Reference Design Kit)를 최종으로 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.55-60
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• 2001

In this paper a new algorithm is introduced to enhance the fingerprint image effectively using fuzzy logic. Our approach is not constrained to a particular image size and scale. It rather handle different conditions of noise and image scale. Ridges are thinned while the image is enhanced along the same orientation as the ridges. The problem of false minutia can be also resolved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.695-698
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 지문 입력기로부터 입력된 지문영상에 대한 전처리 과정에서 기존의 단계들인 모폴로지와 이진화 과정 대신에 새로운 에지(Edge) 보정과 땀샘(sweat gland) 보정 방법을 적용하여 여러 잡음들을 빠르면서 효율적으로 제거하는 방법을 제안하고 이에 대한 실험 결과에서 이 제안된 방법이 기존의 방법들보다 빠르고 선명한 세선화 결과를 획득하게 됨을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.217-226
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• 2003

A novel fingerprint ridge feature extraction using sequential labeling of thinned fingerprint image is proposed, which is invariant to position translation, scaling, and rotation. the proposed algorithm labels ridges of thinned fingerprint image sequentially using vertical line that goes through fingerprint core point. Then, we extract a feature from each labeled ridge and the extraction process is based on the type fo the ridge and a minutiae ridge angle in the ridge. The feature extracted through this process enables us to find out the kind of various minutiae and minutiae angle. As a result of the experiment using two thinned fingerprint images, we finally confirm that proposed algorithm is not related to position translation, scaling, and rotation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.94-99
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• 2003

In this paper, a rotation invariant fingerprint identification system is implemented using the circular harmonic filter and phase only correlator. We extracted the phase component from input fingerprint image and correlate it with the circular harmonic filter of the reference fingerprint image by POC. The input image is obtained using a prism operating in the internal full reflection mode. Then the input image is transformed to two dimensional Fourier spectrum in optical way and the phase component is extracted using a digital system from the spectrum. Because composed of the optical system and digital algorithm, the proposed system has the advantages of the two technologies such as realtime parallel processing property of the optics and the flexibility of the digital system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.91-103
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• 2006

This paper proposes a methodology to evaluate the quality and level of difficulty of fingerprint image databases, which leads to objective evaluation for the performance of fingerprint recognition system. Influencing factors to fingerprint matching are defined and the matching performance between two fingerprint images is evaluated using segmentation and orientation filed. In this study, a hierarchical processing method is proposed to measure an orientation field, which is able to improve the matching speed and accuracy. The results of experiments demonstrate that the defined influencing factors can describe the characteristics of fingerprint databases. Level of difficulty for fingerprint databases enables the performance of fingerprint recognition algorithms to be evaluated and compared even with different databases.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.136-144
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• 2010

Two types of informations are used for content-based video copy detection: spatial information and temporal information. The spatial information means content-based image fingerprint. This image fingerprint must have following characteristic. First, Extraction is simple. Second, pairwise independence for random selected two images. At last, Robust for modifications. This paper proposed image fingerprint method for contents based video copy detection. Proposed method's extraction speed is fast because this method's using block average, first order differentiation and second order differentiation that can be calculated add and minus operation. And it has pairwise independence and robust against modifications. Also, proposed method feature makes binary by comparisons and using coarse to fine structure, so it's matching speed is fast. Proposed method is verified by modified image that modified by VCE7's experimental conditions in MPEG7.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.3C
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• pp.359-367
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• 2004

The postprocessing to remove false minutia is important because the extraction of true minutia affects the performance as a key factor in fingerprint identification system. In this paper, we propose an efficient postprocessing algorithm for removing false minutia among the extracted candidates in a thinned image. The proposed algorithm removes false minutia in three steps by using various information in the acquired fingerprint image: the structural information of minutia (end point and bifurcation), the inherent characteristics of fingerprint, and the quality of acquired images. Under Intel Celeron processor environment with 248${\times}$292 images acquired by optic device, the experiments showed that the proposed algorithm efficiently removed false minutia while preserving true minutia. Moreover, the proposed algorithm takes 0.0154 second, which is very small compared to the time for preprocessing (0.343 second).

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.73-80
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• 2006

Fingerprint-based verification system has been used for a very long time. Because of their well-known uniqueness and immutability, fingerprint is one of the most widely used biometric features. However, fingerprint identification system has such a critical weakness that the performance of verification is reduced drastically for a poor input fingerprint. In this paper, an image enhancement algorithm using enhanced direction and enhanced binary and aiming image is used to mitigate the problem in the preprocessing. The goal of image enhancement is to estimate the quality of input fingerprint image and to improve the clarity of ridge and valley structures of input fingerprint image. Also, a ridge orientation extraction method using index table is proposed to improve the speed of verification. It is shown by the experiments that proposed fingerprint verification system improves the minutiae extraction accuracy and performance of verification.